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And the other one has to be Muspelheim, the world of primal fire.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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And the other one has to be Muspelheim, the world of primal fire.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Does that actually mean that the world began when the warm air of Muspelheim hit the cold ice of Niflheim, as is described by Norse Mythology?
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Midway between Niflheim and Muspelheim lay Midgard, the home of men, its round disk everywhere encircled by the ocean, which perpetually rushed upon it, gently in still summer afternoons, but with
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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From the south there streamed forth the sparkling heat of Muspelheim; and as the heat and cold met, the melting ice-drops became possessed of life, and produced, through the power of him who had sent forth heat, Ymir, the sire of the frost giants.
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In old Norse mythology we read of the terrible "Frost Giants," offspring of Ymir, born of the ice of Niflheim, which the warmth exhaled from the sun-lit land of Muspelheim caused to drop off into the great Ginnunga-gap, the void that once was where earth is now.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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In the south was another world, Muspelheim -- a light, warm, radiant world, the boundary of which was guarded by Surt with a flaming sword.
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Sparks and warm winds from Muspelheim, coming into contact with this ice, melted it, so that there hung always over the ice chasm a dense vapor.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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All the gods set to work catching sparks from Muspelheim, and there was great rivalry as to which one should collect most.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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But Bifröst broke under the weight of the riders of Muspelheim, and they came not to the City of the Gods.
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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